Meteor/Meteorite News- 17OCT'09

Vandalism proves to be meteorite damage Welland Tribune Now Yvonne and son Tony are the surprised owners of a new windshield -- and five tiny, black and silver fragments of shattered meteorite. ...

Orionid meteor shower to peak on October 21 Thaindian.com Washington, October 17 (ANI): Reports indicate that this year's Orionid meteor shower would peak on October 21, and could produce up to 20 meteors per hour. ...

Saturday Brew: Geographic Personality Profiling, Reference Library Reno ...

blogTO
The meteorite that I mentioned a few Saturdays ago has been found by a family living in Grimbsy, Ontario. They originally thought that the broken windshield ...

Meteorite shatters car windshield in southern Ontario

Ottawa Citizen
The meteorite landed in the yard of Grimsby, Ont. resident Tony Garchinski. GRIMSBY, Ont. — When Tony Garchinski saw five small chunks of black rock sitting ...

Southern Cross Stargazer

MiamiHerald.com
Maximum activity from the annual Orionid Meteor Shower occurs between midnight and dawn today. Glittering debris from the dust tail of long-gone Comet ...

Gifts From the Heavens and Sea in Quebec

New York Times
Some 350 million years ago, a huge meteorite collided with this part of what is now eastern Canada and created the roughly 2300 square miles of valleys and ...

Meteorite the culprit in act of supposed vandalism

Globe and Mail
Researchers are hoping that now this rock has been found and the public knows what a meteorite looks like, more will turn up. Because they found it – or, ...

Ont. family finds 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite in truck's windshield
The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:00 PM PDT
GRIMSBY, Ont. - The Garchinski family of southwestern Ontario had thought vandals were responsible for a smashed windshield in their truck.

4.6-billion-year-old meteorite smashes windshield in Grimsby Toronto Star Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:22 PM PDT The Garchinski family had thought vandals were responsible for a smashed windshield in their truck.

Ont. Family At Centre Of Scientific Find; Meteorite Crashes Through Windshield CityNews Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:09 PM PDT A southwestern Ontario family has unwittingly found themselves at the centre of a rare scientific find.

Dino-killing crater crashed near India: Prof Dose Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:55 PM PDT An American professor says he has proof that the massive meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago actually crash-landed off India's west coast.

Grimsby family shows off visitor from space St. Catharines Standard Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:42 PM PDT Yvonne and Tony Garchinski are the proud new owners of five tiny meteorite fragments. They also have a new windshield, after the space rock smashed into their Pathfinder three weeks ago.[...]

Space rock smashes windshield St. Catharines Standard Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:41 PM PDT The Grimsby meteorite has been found. But the space race is far from over, said Phil McCausland, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario.[...]

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented PhysOrg Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:38 PM PDT When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder with a huge crack in it. Making note of the 'unusual' rocks he later found on the car's hood, Garchinski chalked the incident up to vandalism and filed a police report.

Meteorite crashed into an SUV near Hamilton CTV Toronto Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:37 AM PDT Astronomers say they have found a meteorite fragment the size of a golf ball near Hamilton, which they believe streaked across the night sky above Southern Ontario in late September.

S. Ontario meteorite fragment hit SUV CBC.ca Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:33 AM PDT Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario have recovered a golf-ball sized fragment of a meteorite that hit an SUV in southern Ontario.

Small meteorite broke windshield of SUV
Hamilton Spectator Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:41 AM PDT
GRIMSBY (Oct 16, 2009) - Scientists say a golf ball-sized rock that smashed through the windshield of an SUV is a meteorite, possibly from a spectacular fireball that streaked across the sky above Hamilton three weeks ago.

Massive meteor impact off India—not Mexico—may have ended the Dinosaurs

Examiner.com
In comparison, the meteor that struck the Yucatan Peninsula which is commonly believed to have killed the dinosaurs was between 8 and 10 (5 and 6.2 miles) ...

Looking Up: Clouds come and go, but stars shine on

Norwich Bulletin
If you are tired of earthly showers, hopefully the clouds will part long enough for you to see the meteor shower that arrives every mid-October. ...

Dino-killing crater crashed near India: Prof

Vancouver Sun
A professor says the massive meteorite that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago seems to have landed off the west coast of India. ...

4.6-billion-year-old meteorite smashes windshield in Grimsby

Toronto Star
After learning a 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite was instead to blame, they're thrilled to be at the centre of a rare scientific find. ...

Dinosaur-killing space rock may have landed near India

Vancouver Sun
An American professor says he has proof that the massive meteorite that killed the dinosaurs actually crash-landed off India's west coast. ...

Orionids Meteor Shower Starts This Weekend

National Geographic
Spawned by Halley's comet, which last buzzed the planet in 1986, tiny space rocks are the seeds of the annual Orionid meteor shower. ...

Meteorite crashed into an SUV near Hamilton

CTV.ca
Astronomers say they have found a meteorite fragment the size of a golf ball near Hamilton, which they believe streaked across the night sky above Southern ...

Strong Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday Morning

Space.com
By Geoff Gaherty The Orionid meteor shower, one of the biggest and brightest of the year, is at its peak Wednesday morning, Oct. 21. ...

Tremendous fireball over the Netherlands Discover Magazine In general, meteorites from deep space are not hot, but this is a bit different; it would have fallen from a decaying orbit, meaning a slower speed and a ...

Moon rock lands in Norwich Norwich Evening News Youngsters from across the city will be able to get their hands on some moon rocks and meteorites at a Norwich science centre this half term. ...

S. Ontario meteorite fragment hit SUV

CBC.ca
Astronomers at the University of Western Ontario have recovered a golf-ball sized fragment of a meteorite from an SUV in southern Ontario. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimsby Ontario Bolide 16OCT09

Grimsby, Ontario bolide info
From: "Matson, Robert D." <ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:16:08 -0700

At the beginning of the week I contacted Dr. Peter Brown at University
of Western
Ontario, letting him know that the Grimsby bolide terminal burst had
been captured
on NexRad Doppler radar images taken in Buffalo, New York. I created
several maps
of the radar returns at three different altitudes, showing that the
terminal burst
location is in perfect agreement with UWO's solution (triangulated from
seven
all-sky cameras). I shared this information with Dr. Tony Phillips at
SpaceWeather,
and he has provided links on his site to a couple of the radar images I
created:

http://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=12&month=10&year=2009

A wide-area map is here:

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/13oct09/Grimsby_5100m.jpg

And a second map zoomed in on the terminal burst cloud is here:

http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2009/13oct09/Grimsby_Zoom_5100m.jpg

As the filenames suggest, the Doppler beam altitude at this location was
a little
over 5 km, and the area covered is roughly a mile wide by 2 miles long.
(There
were also colocated radar returns at 6.5 km and 3.7 km, though the
largest
returns were at 5.1 km.) Judging from where meteorites were found in
Park
Forest and Ash Creek (West), I would expect a number of meteorites to be
found
directly beneath the strongest radar returns, with sizes generally
increasing
as you move to the east-southeast.

I have not yet seen any images of the purported golf-ball-sized
meteorite that
hit the SUV, nor do I know where this SUV was parked, so can't judge
whether
it's a legitimate possibility.

--Rob

Meteor/Meteorite News- Grimsby family shows off visitor from space 16OCT09

Grimsby family shows off visitor from space

Posted By Matthew Van Dongen, Standard Staff

The police report was half right.

When Yvonne Garchinski complained a stone-throwing vandal had smashed the windshield of her Nissan Pathfinder three weeks ago, the responding police officer wrote in his notes that the offending rock “was not from the property.” Try not from the planet. ...

(more with video report)

http://beta.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2133932

Asteroid News- Detecting Dark Asteroids/Ninjas 16OCT09

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/15sep_ninjaastronomy.htm

In Search of Dark Asteroids (and Other Sneaky Things)
NASA Science News

Ninjas knew how to be stealthy: Be dark. Emit very little light. Move
in the shadows between bright places. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 16OCT09

Nan at Night by Nancy Hoyt

Sierra Mountain Times
-Tuesday the 20th: The Orionid meteor show lights up the skies the next night or two. There is no moon to get in the way, so this should be a good year for ...

Vermeintlicher Einschlagsort Shiva - Bassin : " Wenn wir richtig liegen , ist das der größte bekannte Krater unseres Planeten . "

Massentod-Debatte Meteoritentreffer vor Indien soll Dinosaurier ...

Spiegel Online - Hamburg,national,Germany
Doch in den vergangenen Jahren waren immer mehr Zweifel daran aufgekommen, ob dieser Meteorit tatsächlich für das Ende der Saurier verantwortlich war - oder ...






Small meteorite broke windshield of SUV

Hamilton Spectator
Scientists say a golf ball-sized rock that smashed through the windshield of an SUV is a meteorite, possibly from a spectacular fireball that streaked ...

Weird news/Good news briefs

24 Hours Vancouver
METEORITE FOUND The Grimsby, Ont. meteorite has been found. But the space race is far from over, said Phil McCausland, an astrophysicist at the University ...

Observing podcast: Orionid meteor shower, open cluster NGC 7789, and the ...

Astronomy Magazine
October 16-23, 2009, the Orionid meteor shower makes a great event for beginning observers, while open cluster NGC 7789 and the Bubble Nebula provide nice ...

Geology Museum celebrates new meteorite exhibit
Anderson Independent-Mail Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:01 PM PDT
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY â In celebration of Earth Science Week, the Bob Campbell Geology Museum will host an open house from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday with tours of the museum at Clemson University and family activities to learn more about the earth. All the activities are free. A new exhibit opens Sunday featuring meteorites from around South Carolina with explanations of how these space objects ...

Meteor hunters hit paydirt Hamilton Spectator Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:55 AM PDT GRIMSBY â Scientists believe a golf ball-sized rock found in Grimsby is a meteorite from a spectacular fireball that streaked through the skies above Hamilton three weeks ago.

Grimsby meteorite found St. Catharines Standard Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:26 AM PDT The Grimsby space rock has been found. A fragment of meteorite the size of a golf ball smashed in the windshield of a Grimsby family's sport utility vehicle on Sept. 25, according to a media release from the University of Western Ontario.[...]

Far out! Meteorite found in Grimsby
St. Catharines Standard Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:55 AM PDT
The Grimsby meteorite has been found. But the space race is far from over, said Phil McCausland, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Ontario.[...]

Geology Museum celebrates new meteorite exhibit

Anderson Independent Mail
A new exhibit opens Sunday featuring meteorites from around South Carolina with explanations of how these space objects originate and how to spot them in ...

“Wild Things” isn't just child play — Children's book takes a more ominous turn

Osceola News-Gazette
At school, his science teacher talks about global warming, pollution, the possibility of a mass extinction meteor and lots of other “end of the world as we ...

Western astronomers locate meteor

Western News
By Communications Staff A golf ball-sized fragment of the meteorite that lit up the skies of southern Ontario three weeks ago has been recovered in Grimsby, ...

Grimsby meteorite found

St. Catharines Standard
A fragment of meteorite the size of a golf ball smashed in the windshield of a Grimsby family's sport utility vehicle on Sept. ...

Going the full 15 rounds

Estherville Daily News
Chamber Executive Director Dusty Embree was ecstatic about the chamber's acquisition of a portion of the Estherville meteorite. ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- Wildfires and "Clovis Comet" 15OCT09

Wildfires and "Clovis Comet"
In "Holocene Start Impacts: EP Grondine: Rich Murray 2009.10.15" at
http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/meteorite-list/2009-October/057362.html

,
Rich Murray wrote:

"I'm glad to see a new consensus rapidly evolving re widespread
Holocene Start impacts from myriad fragments of an 13 Ka BP
ice comet."

What consensus? Given that many paleoclimatologists, archaeologists,
and Quaternary geologists are having extreme problems reproducing
the results by Firestone, West, and others, it looks like the "Clovis Comet"
is turning into fiasco like the Permian-Triassic extinction claims where
Luanne Becker and scientists claimed to have found positive proof of
a Permian--Triassic extraterrestrial impact only to have it all fall apart
when other geologists, paleontologists, and paleopedologists tried to
reproduced their results and critically examined their findings.

A good example of this is a recent paper that discusses evidence
related to the "Clovis Comet" hypothesis of Firestone, west, and
others is:

Marlon, J. R., P. J. Bartlein, M. K. Walsh, S. P. Harrison, K. J.
Brown, M. E. Edwards, P. E. Higuera, M. J. Power, R. S. Anderson,
C. Briles, A. Brunelle, C. Carcaillet, M. Daniels, F. S. Hu, M.
Lavoiem, C. Longn, T. Minckley, P. J. H. Richard, A. C. Scott,
D. S. Shafer, W. Tinners, C. E. Umbanhowar, Jr., and C. Whitlock,
2009, Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America.
Proceedinds of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 106, no. 8,
pp. 2519-2524. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808212106

Abstract at:

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/8/2519

The abstract in part states:

"We also test the hypothesis that a comet impact initiated
continental-scale wildfires at 12.9 ka; the data do not support
this idea, nor are continent-wide fires indicated at any time
during deglaciation."

and

"Biomass burning gradually increased from the glacial period to
the beginning of the Younger Dryas. Although there are changes
in biomass burning during the Younger Dryas, there is no
systematic trend. There is a further increase in biomass burning
after the Younger Dryas. Intervals of rapid climate change at
13.9, 13.2, and 11.7 ka are marked by large increases in fire
activity."

This paper concluded:

"No continent-wide fire response is observed at the beginning
of the Younger Dryas chronozone, the time of the hypothesized
comet impact. The results provide no evidence of synchronous
continent-wide biomass burning at any time during the LGIT."

Note "LGIT" = last glacial–interglacial transition.

It is quite clear from this paper that the alleged "consensus" on
the "Clovis Comet" is quite imaginary. It looks like the validity
of the Clovis Comet is far from settled as there are many papers,
both pro and con, that are either in press or in preparation.

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- Space Junk Hits UK House 15OCT09

Couple's home hit by space metal

The metal was originally thought to have fallen from an aircraft

A couple from Hull have been told that a 4lb (1.8kg) chunk of metal which smashed through the roof of their home may have come from space.

The RAF investigated the unidentified falling object after it landed in Peter and Mair Welton's loft in July.

It was not known where the metal had come from but it seemed likely that it was "space debris", investigators said. ... [more]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/8309245.stm

Space junk falls through roof of UK house @ Yahoo!7 Video

Impact Crater News- Craters on Vesta and Ceres 15OCT09

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0909/14jupiterage/

Craters on Vesta and Ceres could tell Jupiter's age
EUROPEAN PLANETARY SCIENCE CONGRESS NEWS RELEASE

Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter
began to form during the evolution of the early Solar System. A study
modeling the cratering history of the largest two objects in the
asteroid belt, which are believed to be among the oldest in the Solar
System, indicates ...

Meteor/Meteorite News- 15OCT09

Daily News Editorial

Estherville Daily News
A piece of Estherville's history returned recently when the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce bought a slice of the famed Estherville meteorite at ...

Meteor falls over Germany

The Mercury (subscription)
HAMBURG: A ball of light in the night sky that alarmed people across northern Germany was most likely a meteorite, astronomer Thomas Grau says. ...

Blazing Meteor Captured on Video
SPACE.com Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:40 PM PDT
A blazing fireball is caught on tape before it disintegrates into meteorite fragments.
Mysterious ball of light spotted in night sky over Germany
MalaysiaNews.net Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:08 AM PDT
Hamburg, Oct 14 (DPA) A mysterious ball of light in the night sky, which alarmed people across northern Germany, was most likely caused by a falling meteorite, astronomer Thomas Grau said Wednesday.

Canada Meteor/Meteorite News- The search for meteorite bits among the goose droppings 14OCT09

The search for meteorite bits among the goose droppings
The Globe and Mail by C. Freeze and A. M. Paperny, Oct. 13, 2009

http://tiny.cc/MeteoritesGooseDroppings

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-search-for-meteorite-bits-among-the-goose-droppings/article1321365/

Astronomers Capture Spectacular Meteor Footage, Call
for Public's Assistance, Scientific Computing, Oct. 13, 2009

http://tiny.cc/CanadianFireball

http://www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-Astronomers-Capture-Spectacular-Meteor-Footage-Call-for-Public-Assistance-101309.aspx

Yours,

Paul H.

Meteor/Meteorite News- 14OCT09

'Burning ball' spotted in Germany

Independent Online
"We have pictures of the fireball and the meteor cloud," said Grau, the founder of the European Research Centre for Fireballs and Meteorites.

Bild.com

UFO scare in Germany - Meteorite triggers panic-calls to police

Bild.com
What appears to have actually been a meteorite created a flood of calls to police and fire departments on Tuesday evening from worried people. ...


Aufregung um Lichtkugel - Experten vermuten Meteoriten

NDR Online - Hamburg,Germany
"Wir haben Bilder von der Feuerkugel und von der Meteorwolke", sagte der Gründer des Europäischen Netzwerks zur Erforschung von Feuerkugeln und Meteoriten ...

Meteorit: Lichterscheinungen in Deutschland

FOCUS Online - München,Bayern,Germany
Ein Meteorit hat nach Einschätzung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Astronomie in Heidelberg für ungewöhnliche Lichterscheinungen am Himmel gesorgt. ...

Meteorit: Mysteriöse Lichtkugel kam mit Überschallknall

Berliner Morgenpost - Berlin,Berlin,Germany
Möglicherweise sei der Meteorit vor dem Emsland ins Meer gestürzt. Der Meteorit ging entweder in den Niederlanden oder über der Nordsee nieder, ...

Meteorit über Norddeutschland

Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg,Hamburg,Germany
Abendblatt-Leser Lutz Worch fotografierte die Lichtkugel am Dienstag gegen 19 Uhr bei Achterwehr zwischen Kiel und Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein. ...

Mysteriöser Meteorit über Norden Ja, es war ein Meteoritenfall ...

Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg,Hamburg,Germany
Möglicherweise ist der Meteorit vor dem Emsland ins Meer gestürzt. Eine Lichterscheinung am Himmel, fotografiert bei Achterwehr zwischen Kiel und Rendsburg ...

Crater understanding

TheChronicleHerald.ca
The only other known meteor crater in the region is under the ocean about 100 kilometres off the south shore of Nova Scotia. "So it's the first onshore ...

“UFO ramde meteoriet om aarde te redden”

Blog.nl - Amstelveen,Noord Holland,Netherlands
Onze aarde is gisteren op een haar na ontsnapt aan een grote tragedie, niemand anders dan de marsmannetjes hebben een meteoriet onderschept op ramkoers op ...

Meteorite explodes over north Groningen

DutchNews.nl
Hundreds of people report seeing a spectacular fireball or meteorite over the Netherlands in Tuesday's clear evening skies. The police emergency number, ...

Bright meteor sighted in the Dutch night sky

Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
Astronomer Theo Jurriens from Groningen University has confirmed that it was an extremely bright meteor which broke into three pieces after hitting the ...

H1N1 clinic today at Iowa Lakes

Estherville Daily News
By Michael Tidemann - Staff Writer A sizable portion of the Estherville meteorite returned home recently and was unveiled at the Estherville Area Chamber of ...

Researchers study meteorite strike, possibly more, in western NS

Pictou Country Nova Scotia News
BRIDGETOWN, NS — Acadia University researchers are studying a meteorite crater south of Bridgetown, with the possibility of proving other meteors came down ...

Meteoriet zet streep door heldere hemel

BredaVandaag.nl - Breda,Noord-Brabant,Netherlands
Niks daarvan, een meteoriet. De meteoriet werd in Breda gezien door onder meer twee wandelaars in het Haagse Beemdenbos, maar via Twitter blijkt dat de ...

China Daily

Mayan elder 'fed up' with world-end talk

China Daily
A Mayan elder has said that he is tired of being asked about the end of the world supposedly predicted by his culture. Apolinario Chile Pixtun claimed that ...


The search for meteorite bits among the goose droppings
The Globe and Mail Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:38 PM PDT
No description available

The Martian lives of Spirit and Opportunity MSNBC Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:33 PM PDT As one of NASA's rovers discovers a new Martian meteorite and the other tries to escape a sand trap, a NASA engineer answers questions about the long-lived robotic Mars rovers.

Mars rover spots another meteorite
Florida Today Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:47 PM PDT
NASA's intrepid Mars rover Opportunity has found yet another meteorite on the surface of the red planet.

Examiner.com

AGAIN! Mars Rover Opportunity finds third meteorite on Martian surface!

Examiner.com
For the third time during its time on the Martian surface it has discovered a meteorite. “ Shelter Island ” as the new meteorite has been named was ...



Grüne Leuchtkugel am Nachthimmel: Meteorit über Norddeutschland

NonstopNews - Nachrichtendienst - Delmenhorst,Niedersachsen,Germany
(mwü) Über weiten Teilen Norddeutschlands war am Abend eine große, helle Leuchtkugel, möglicherweise ein Meteorit, zu sehen. ...

20:58 'Meteoriet spat uiteen boven...

De Telegraaf - Amsterdam,Noord Holland,Netherlands
Een artist impression van het inslaan van een meteoriet in de dampkring van de aarde. Foto: NASA Jurriens zei uit heel Nederland ongeveer honderd meldingen ...

Meteoriet boven de regio

Radio Noordoost-Friesland - Dokkum,Friesland,Netherlands
Volgens de laatste berichten die we ontvingen bleek het te gaan om een Meteoriet die korte tijd later uit elkaar zou zijn gespat verschillende mensen melden ...

Scientific Computing

Astronomers Capture Spectacular Meteor Footage, Call for Public's Assistance

Scientific Computing
Astronomers from The University of Western Ontario have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. ...

What hit Earth in 1908 with the force of 3000 atomic bombs?

PhysOrg.com
Was it a meteorite, as had first been thought? Was it an asteroid? Was it a comet? Some support the idea that this was not a "natural" event at all but one ...

Making Tracks in Houston County

Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
... the Tennessee Division of Geology, will lead the fieldtrip to several interesting structures showing the impact of the meteorite that struck the area. ...

PhysOrg.com

Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit

PhysOrg.com
Opportunity also just finished analyzing an iron meteorite, dubbed Block Island, that could hold clues as to how water on Mars might have contributed to its ...

Latina

Mayan Elder Insists "2012 Is Not the End of the World"

Latina
by Mariela Rosario | 10.13.2009 | 10:30am | 0 Comments Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun is so over with being asked about the end of the world, ...

Comet News- Comet Births Comets 14OCT09

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090915-mini-comets.html

Comet Outburst Spawns Mini-Comets

A comet recently spewed out a cluster of mini comets in a huge outburst that was the largest ever witnessed by astronomers.

A team of researchers began observing the comet 17P/Holmes in October 2007, after it was reported that the object, about 2.2 miles wide (3.6 km wide), had brightened by a million times in less than a day. ...

Netherlands Meteor/Meteorite News- Groningen Bolide 13OCT09

Groningen Bolide

Meteorite explodes over north Groningen

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/10/meteorite_explodes_over_north.php

Meteorite explodes over north Groningen
written Wednesday 14 October 2009

Hundreds of people report seeing a spectacular fireball or meteorite
over the Netherlands in Tuesday's clear evening skies.

The police emergency number, Dutch coastguard and KNMI weather bureau
report dozens of phone calls about the meteorite, which was seen in
Germany and Belgium.

'I was standing in front of my window when there was a bright flash of
light and a white fireball in the sky fell apart into three smaller
ones,' eyewitness Erik Alberts from Zuidbroek in Groningen province
told Nos tv. 'Like fireworks. A few seconds later, perhaps half a
minute, there was a low rumble and the windows shook.'

Excellent Photographs:

http://www.nu.nl/slideshow/1879465/popup.html#

Fireball Meteor Over Groningen
Photo:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091015.html
Credit & Copyright: Robert Mikaelyan

Explanation: The brilliant fireball meteor captured in this snapshot was a startling visitor to Tuesday evening's twilight skies over the city of Groningen. In fact, sightings of the meteor, as bright as the Full Moon, were widely reported throughout the Netherlands and Germany at approximately 17:00 UT. Accompanied by sonic booms and rumbling sounds, the meteor was seen to break up into bright fragments, eventually leaving a persistent smoke-like trail. Even though there are bright fireball meteors in planet Earth's atmosphere every day, sightings of them are relatively rare because they more often occur over oceans and uninhabited areas.

Robert Mikaelyan`s Website about the Groningen Bolide

http://www.fotoarena.nl/

Meteoor
13 October 2009
Time: 18.57 hour
Place: Groningen
Location: Suikerunie

http://www.fotoarena.nl/

Meteor/Meteorite News- 13OCT09

Jimmy Westlake: A great year for Orionid Meteors

Steamboat Pilot
This October's Orionid meteor shower will peak between the hours of midnight and dawn on the morning of Oct. 21. A single observer with the benefit of dark, ...

The search for meteorite bits among the goose droppings

Globe and Mail
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 12:00AM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 1:23AM EDT In space, the ancient meteor ...

Space Ref (press release)

Old ice: Climate record from last 2.5 million years may sit at the surface of ...

Space Ref (press release)
The first indication that Allan Hills held million-year-old ice actually came from meteorites collected there by scientists working on the Antarctica Search ...
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Cosmic Object Caught On Camera

KOAT.com
So if there's other videos, then we might be able to triangulate and see if there's a meteorite that landed somewhere," said Ashcraft. ...

KOB.com

Meteorite streaks across NM sky

KOB.com
"If we can get other camera angles, than we can put all the positions together and possibly hunt for an important--scientifically important--meteorite," he ...


Mars Rover Spots Another Meteorite
SPACE.com via Yahoo! News Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:01 AM PDT
NASA's intrepid Mars rover Opportunity has found yet another meteorite on the surface of the red planet. ...

Opportunity rover finds yet another Mars meteorite
Spaceflight Now Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:16 PM PDT
In a remarkable discovery 126 million miles from Earth, the Mars rover Opportunity has found a second large iron meteorite sitting just a half mile from its twin sibling where they both landed on Mars within seconds of each other 3 billion years ago. ...

Mars Rover FAQ: The Martian Lives of Spirit and Opportunity

Space.com
Spirit and Opportunity have shed light on the history of water on Mars in the distant past, explored Martian hills and meteorites, and even rolled inside ...

Марсианский вездеход Opportunity обнаружил еще один "свежий" метеорит

СайберCекьюрити.Ру - Москва,Russia
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Asteroid Impact News- Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis 13OCT09

Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis GSA and AGU Abstracts

The GSA abstracts can be found in "T94. Impact Cratering
from the Microscopic to the Planetary Scale II (GSA
Planetary Geology Division; International Continental
Scientific Drilling Program [ICDP]; GSA Sedimentary
Geology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics
Division; GSA Geophysics Division; Paleontological
Society; GSA International Division) at

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/session_25177.htm

The abstracts are;

1. Dryas. Pinter, N., A. C. Andrew, and D. Ebel, 2009,
Extraterrestrial and Terrestrial Signatures at the Onset of
the Younger Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_162563.htm

2. Holliday, V. T., and D. J. Meltzer, 2009, Geoarchaeology
of the 12.9ka Impact hypothesis. Geological Society of
America Abstracts with Programs.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_160959.htm

3. Paquay, F., S. Goderis, G. Ravizza, and P. Claeys, 2009, No
evidence of of extraterrestrial geochemical components at the
Bolling-Allerod/Younger Dryas Transition. Geological Society
of America Abstracts with Programs.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_163154.htm

4. Surovell, T. A., and V. T. Holliday, 2009, Non-
Reproducibility of Younger Dryas Extraterrestrial Impact
Results. Geological Society of America Abstracts with
Programs.

http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2009AM/finalprogram/abstract_163912.htm

PDF files of various papers by Dr. V. T. Holliday can be
found beneath "Publications of Vance T. Holliday" at:

http://www.argonaut.arizona.edu/holliday.htm

This includes:

Vance T. Holliday, David A. Kring, James H. Mayer, and Ronald J.
Goble, Age and effects of the Odessa meteorite impact, western Texas,
USA. Geology. vol. 33, pp. 945-947. at:

http://www.argonaut.arizona.edu/articles/holliday_etal2005.pdf

The Abstracts to the 2009 American Geophysical Union
presentations for "PP15: Younger Dryas Boundary:
Extraterrestrial Impact or Not?" have not been posted
yet. Eventually, they should appear at

http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=388

According to George Howard, http://www.georgehoward.net/clovis_comet_at_fall_2009_agu.htm

,
the titles of the accepted papers are:

1. Lost Impacts

2. High resolution Osmium isotopes in deep-sea
ferromanganese crusts reveal a large meteorite impact
in the Central Pacific at 12.4 ka

3. What Caused the Younger Dryas? An Assessment of
Existing Hypotheses

4. An Independent Evaluation of the Younger Dryas
Extraterrestrial Impact Hypothesis

5. Cosmic impact: What are the odds?

6. Cometary airbursts and atmospheric chemistry:
Tunguska and a candidate Younger Dryas event

7. Problems with the Younger Dryas Boundary ( YDB )
Impact Hypothesis

8. Beringian Megafaunal Extinctions at ~37 ka B.P.:
Do Micrometeorites Embedded in Fossil Tusks and
Skulls Indicate an Extraterrestial Precursor to
the Younger Dryas Event?

9. Airbursts in the Sky with Diamonds? Shock
Limits to a Younger Dryas Impact.

10. The platinum group metals in Younger Dryas
Horizons are terrestrial

11. Putting the Younger Dryas Cold Event into Context

12. Field-Analytical approach of land-sea records
for elucidating the Younger Dryas Boundary syndrome

13 Evidence of four prehistoric supernovae <250
parsecs from Earth during the past 50,000 years

14. Oblique impacts into low impedance layers

15. Cold Climate Related Structural Sinks Accommodate
Unusual Soil Constituents, Pinelands National Reserve,
New Jersey, USA.

16. Positive anomaly in platinum group elements and
the presence of shocked diamonds: Two question marks
at the Younger Dryas

17. Nanodiamonds and Carbon Spherules from Tunguska,
the K/T Boundary, and the Younger Dryas Boundary Layer

18. Are Nanodiamonds Evidence for a Younger Dryas
Impact Event?

19. Rockyhock and Kimbel Carolina Bays: Extraterrestrial
Impact or Terrestrial Genesis?

20. No support from osmium isotopes for an impact event
at the Bolling-Allerod/Younger Dryas transition

21. Climatic Control of Biomass Burning During the Last
Glacial-Interglacial Transition

22. Human Population Decline in North America during
the Younger Dryas

23. Summary of impact markers and potential impact
mechanisms for the YDB impact event at 12.9 ka

24. Testing Younger Dryas ET Impact ( YDB ) Evidence
at Hall’s Cave, Texas

25. Wildfires, Soot and Fullerenes in the 12,900 ka
Younger Dryas boundary layer in North America.

Obviously, the discussion about the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis continues.


Source Paul H., USA

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Meteor/Meteorite News- Gallup-Flagstaff Fireball 8OCT09 11OCT09

Fireball in Gallup-Flagstaff vicinity

On October 8, 2009, another notable meteor occurred in the Flagstaff,
Arizona - Gallup, New Mexico vicinity 2247 MDT. This meteor was heading
westerly and was witnessed by many people.

Chris Peterson's Montrose camera captured it and a video can be accessed
at :
http://www.cloudbait.com/meteor/data.php?recnum=28691

My observatory captured it as well but I don't have time to process it
completely so am just supplying the raw pic and .mov at:

http://www.heliotown.com/v20091008_2246Ashcraft.jpg

http://www.heliotown.com/v20091008_2246Ashcraft.mov

( 2.5 MB .mov file)

Thomas Ashcraft
New Mexico